Another Charles Krauthammer essay and two joke/poems
“Garbage in, garbage out. Or GIGO as an acronym.” Most of us have heard this before, whether it is about nutrition or information taken in.
Reading one of Krauthammer’s 2002 essays from The Washington Post, “When Modern Medicine Fails,” part of the posthumous book collected by his son, The Point of It All, The essay deals with nutrition and the way trends in what is healthy can change, starting with a joking reference to Woody Allen’s sci-fi comedy Sleeper in which it is proposed marijuana is good for you (Allen had a joke to the effect that people taught him as a child that milk was actually good for you) and then considering if eggs and tobacco can also be healthy.
In the British play and film The Lost Weekend, the lead character says booze is medicine for him. I suppose many would say that is alcoholic self-justification. You have to be careful with any substance, legal or illegal .. or even formally medicated by licensed doctors.
While marijuana pure seems to be dangerous to some people (like schizophrenics), CBD products seem to have been widely accepted now as an over-the-counter, anti-anxiety treatment.
I am not a medical doctor and have put a lot of c–p in my body’s digestive system. I call a lot of what I eat still “bachelor food,” canned or frozen stuff and Coke.
But Krauthammer was a practicing medical doctor before becoming a writer/commentator.
Original joke/poems
“Naps” by yours truly
Micro-naps; don’t collapse.
Cat naps; big hats.
Welcome Matt; Step on the welcome mat.
Don’t like a dog or cat.
Not really any pet met.
(That I ever met).
“Just” by yours truly
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